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Thursday, 4 October 2018

Saturday 5th October 1918

Billets in Creazzo.

Training continued.

Pte. Fred Clayton (see 27th September) was reported by Cpl. William McGill (see 11th September) as having ‘untidy kit’; on the orders of 2Lt. Sam Benjamin Farrant (see 27th September) he was to be confined to barracks for seven days.
Capt. Bob Perks DSO (see 28th September) re-joined the Battalion, more than a year after having been wounded during the attack on the village of Veldhoek on 20th September 1917.

Capt, Bob Perks DSO
Image by kind permission of Janet Hudson
L.Sgt. Harold Best (see 20th September) and Pte. Newton Dobson (see 26th August) departed on seven days’ leave to Lake Garda.
Pte. John William Kirby (see 28th May 1917) was admitted via 69th Field Ambulance and 39th Casualty Clearing Station to 51st Stationary Hospital; he was suffering from influenza. 
Ptes. William Shirtcliffe Mallinson (see 28th July) and Herbert Stanley Smith (see 16th June) were admitted via 69th Field Ambulance and 9th Casualty Clearing Station to 23rd Division Rest Station; both were suffering from scabies. Pte. Smith would be discharged and re-join the Battalion after two days, but Pte. Mallinson would remain under treatment.
Pte. Farrand Kayley (see 20th August 1917), brother of Tunstill’s recruits James (see 4th January) and Job Kayley (see 29th July 1916), who was serving in France with 1st/6th Battalion West Ridings as a transport driver, returned to England on two weeks’ leave.
Lt. Charles Frederick Wolfe (see 14th July), former Transport Officer to 10DWR, now serving with the ASC, was posted to 435th H.T. Company, based at Chatham.
Pte. Willie Holmes (see 27th August), who had been admitted to hospital whilst home on leave, was discharged from the War Hospital in Dewsbury and posted to Northern Command Depot at Ripon. Within days of reporting he would be admitted to the Camp Hospital for further treatment to the boils and carbuncles which had seen him admitted previously.
A medical report was prepared on the condition of Pte. Walter Eary (see 28th September), who was being treated for a laryngeal tumour at Queen Mary’s Military Hospital, Whalley, Lancs. It was noted that, “An oesophygal bougie (tube) could not be passed through the thyroid level and caused some blood-stained mucous to be brought up. There is some cough with blood-stained expiration. There is very marked dysphagia (difficulty in swallowing). The disease is probably malignant”.




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